Songwriting and Music Production
— click the source link below , then the picture link to the right for more great shots of the early band. This live performance at The Kitchen’s former SoHo space was one of Talking Heads’s early performances. The group was formed in 1975, and this show preceded the release of the band’s first record…
As a piano accompanist for this long thing with so many words, how do you keep your part interesting? How do you keep yourself engaged for such a long track?In our jazz world, we just lost a dear soul, Chick Corea. I was reading some of his advice that he had typed out for somebody,…
SIZZLING–geddit?–PLATTER OF THE WEEK: David Bowie – Blackstar (ISO) :: You’d think that suffering a heart attack after recording the less than holy holy Heathen would’ve warned him to resist the dark side, but nooooooooooooo. Various Artists – Moogfest 2006 Live (MVD Visual DVD) :: When it comes to aural affection, Moog synthesizer adherents are…
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Eddie did indeed go on to jam with Limp Bizkit at a house in Beverly Hills, but abruptly split the session after people there began smoking pot, leaving his guitar and amp behind. Bennett recounted Eddie saying the experience was like being “a scholar amongst kindergartners.” Things went even further south when Eddie tried contacting…
4. Toronto, Canada I recently hung out with one of Toronto’s heads of Government arts funding. Let’s just say she had an annual arts budget comparable to the salary of an NBA superstar. All of that money went to Ontario-based indie artists to release their own albums. Toronto also has perhaps the highest talent per…
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Source: Iggy Pop interview: “Punk has to have a sense of hopelessness about it”
Actually this is a bullshit article but well worth reading for the perspective it provides or should I say POV. Like all monumental acts of creativity, the artists were driven by an aspiration to transcend their own finitude, to create something of lasting value, something enduring that would live beyond those who created it. Source:…
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I helped set up this show along with 50 other Stage Hands at Budweiser Stage in Toronto. It was the morning the truss fell off the forklift onto my shoulder. Wish I could have afforded to see the show. I like both bands a lot. Note: this is a link to a slide show. Source:…
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…very well done and enlightening documentary on Marc Bolan and his bands. 1:17:00